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Aug 18, 1972 · With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name.
On a weekend canoeing trip down a river in the Georgia back country, four urban businessmen enter a nightmare in which both nature and mankind conspire to send them through a crucible of danger and degradation in which their lives and perhaps even their souls are put at horrendous risk. — Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net> Synopsis.
Four city-dwelling friends (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) decide to get away from their jobs, wives and kids for a week of canoeing in rural Georgia.
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Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same name directed by John Boorman . In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels . [2]
James Dickey's "Deliverance" also is the story of a "worst journey." Four city slickers from Atlanta decide to take a canoe trip down a river that will soon be flooded out to make a lake. One of the four is big on the old machismo.
Deliverance. THRILLER. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture, directed by Oscar-nominated John Boorman (Hope And Glory), and starring Academy Award-winner Jon Voight (Mission: Impossible, Heat) and Oscar- nominee, Golden Globe and Emmy-winner Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights, Evening Shade), this box-office hit is the story of ...
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. James Dickey. Novel, Screenplay.
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
